American counterterrorism analyst and foreign policy expert
Bruce Hoffman
Hoffman in 2006
Born
1954 (age 69–70)
New York City, U.S.
Title
Shelby Cullom and Kathryn W. Davis Senior Fellow
George H. Gilmore Senior Fellow
Academic background
Education
Connecticut College (BA) New College, Oxford (BPhil) St. Antony's College, Oxford (DPhil)
Thesis
Jewish Terrorist Activities and the British Government in Palestine, 1939–1947 (1985)
Doctoral advisor
Michael Howard
Other advisors
Bernard Wasserstein
Academic work
Discipline
International relations
Institutions
RAND Corporation University of St Andrews Georgetown University Claremont McKenna College
Main interests
International relations theory
Bruce R. Hoffman (born 1954) is an American political analyst. He specializes in the study of terrorism, counter-terrorism, insurgency, and counter-insurgency. Hoffman serves as the Shelby Cullom and Kathryn W. Davis Senior Fellow for Counterterrorism and Homeland Security on the Council on Foreign Relations, and is a professor at the School of Foreign Service of Georgetown University.[1] In addition, he is the Professor Emeritus and Honorary Professor of Terrorism Studies at the University of St Andrews,[2] and is the George H. Gilmore Senior Fellow at the U.S. Military Academy's Combating Terrorism Center.[3]
Hoffman began an interest in the study of international relations while an undergraduate at Connecticut College. He received his graduate education at the Oxford University, earning his doctorate in 1986. Hoffman has since held multiple professorships and appointments. In May 2022, Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin appointed Hoffman as a commissioner on the Commonwealth of Virginia's Commission to Combat Antisemitism.[4]
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of terrorist activities.[citation needed] Counterterrorism analyst BruceHoffman has noted that it is not only individual agencies within the same governmental...
terrorism is intimately connected to current forces of geopolitics. BruceHoffman has characterized modern religious terrorism as having three traits:...
sitting around about discreetly overhearing each other." Security analyst BruceHoffman has written that the hotel "housed the nerve centre of British rule...
effects on various audiences and conflict parties" (Schmid, 2011). BruceHoffman notes that terrorism is "ineluctably about power". Terrorism has been...
posts were encouraged as a way to achieve visibility. According to BruceHoffman and colleagues writing in Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, as "edgy"...
leadership of having "genocidal" intentions against Jews. According to BruceHoffman, the Hamas Charter exhibits "genocidal intentions". The 1988 Charter...
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the Emerald Isle, Bluegrass Today, Feb. 12, 2019 Produced by BruceHoffman with Hoffman Studio Productions "Finally Going Home". The Petersens. Retrieved...
representatives or led public relations campaigns against Britain. According to BruceHoffman: "In an era long before the advent of 24/7 global news coverage and...
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as a guitarist. Inspired by the success of the Beatles, he replaced BruceHoffman as the bass player in the locally popular group the Nomads in Madison...
Jenkins who in 1989 was replaced by BruceHoffman. Hoffman left RAND to set up CSTPV some time in 1994. In 1998 BruceHoffman returned to RAND and Paul Wilkinson...
cause, is unacceptable and fits into the definition of terrorism." Dr. BruceHoffman has argued that failing to differentiate between state and non-state...
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more fragile than a spiderweb." Arie W. Kruglanski, Moshe Ya'alon, BruceHoffman, Efraim Inbar, and YNET interpret the "spider web" theory as the notion...
it cannot draw any conclusions on the efficacy of suicide terrorism. BruceHoffman describes the characteristics of suicide bombing, as "universal": "Suicide...
kinship are key components." After the book was negatively reviewed by BruceHoffman in Foreign Affairs, a debate, which was covered by The New York Times...
"enemies," as it has no clear target. Georgetown University Historian BruceHoffman describes traditional war as a war that "ends with the vanquishing of...
judge, Hoffman presided over numerous important cases, including a tax evasion case against Tony Accardo, an obscenity case against Lenny Bruce, a deportation...
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